Frequent misdirected courtship in a natural community of colorful Habronattus jumping spiders. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Male courtship display is common in many animals; in some cases, males engage in courtship indiscriminately, spending significant time and energy courting heterospecifics with whom they have no chance of mating or producing viable offspring.
Lisa A Taylor +2 more
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Turning males on: activation of male courtship behavior in Drosophila melanogaster. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 The innate sexual behaviors of Drosophila melanogaster males are an attractive system for elucidating how complex behavior patterns are generated. The potential for male sexual behavior in D. melanogaster is specified by the fruitless (fru) and doublesex
Yufeng Pan +2 more
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Evolutionary Relationships of Courtship Songs in the Parasitic Wasp Genus, Cotesia (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) [PDF]
, 2019 Acoustic signals play an important role in premating isolation based on sexual selection within many taxa. Many male parasitic wasps produce characteristic courtship songs used by females in mate selection.
Bredlau, Justin P., Kester, Karen M.
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Patterns of the electric organ discharge during courtship and spawning in the mormyrid fish, Pollimyrus isidori [PDF]
, 1989 Pollimyrus isidori's electric organ discharge (EOD) is of the pulse type. Patterns of EOD intervals were investigated prior to, during and following spawning behaviors as related with overt behaviors, and with the sound production by the nestbuilding ...
Bratton, Bradford O., Kramer, Bernd
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Cell Reports, 2014 How do evolved genetic changes alter the nervous system to produce different patterns of behavior? We address this question using Drosophila male courtship behavior, which is innate, stereotyped, and evolves rapidly between species. D.
Jessica Cande +4 more
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Sensory integration regulating male courtship behavior in Drosophila. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2009 The courtship behavior of Drosophila melanogaster serves as an excellent model system to study how complex innate behaviors are controlled by the nervous system. To understand how the underlying neural network controls this behavior, it is not sufficient
Dimitrije Krstic +2 more
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Reduction of dopamine level enhances the attractiveness of male Drosophila to other males. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2009 Dopamine is an important neuromodulator in animals and its roles in mammalian sexual behavior are extensively studied. Drosophila as a useful model system is widely used in many fields of biological studies.
Tong Liu +6 more
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Both male and female identity influence variation in male signalling effort
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2011 Background Male sexual displays play an important role in sexual selection by affecting reproductive success. However, for such displays to be useful for female mate choice, courtship should vary more among than within individual males. In this regard, a
Svensson P Andreas +2 more
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Endocrine modulation of primary chemosensory neurons regulates Drosophila courtship behavior.
PLoS Genetics, 2022 The decision to engage in courtship depends on external cues from potential mates and internal cues related to maturation, health, and experience. Hormones allow for coordinated conveyance of such information to peripheral tissues.
Matthew R Meiselman +3 more
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Immune challenge affects reproductive behaviour in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata)
Royal Society Open Science, 2023 Immunocompetence and reproduction are among the most important determinants of fitness. However, energetic and metabolic constraints create conflict between these two life-history traits.
Stella A. Encel +3 more
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